In a new publication, part of IUCN's series, marine scientists worldwide publish their findings on shark species in the ...

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Pigment disorders are "exceptionally rare" among sharks, and only 15 cases have ever been documented among deep-sea species, ...

Local scientists captured on camera multiple roughskin dogfish sharks, a rarely seen species in the region and a first-time ...

Once abundant, angel sharks are now so rare that some scientists go for their entire career without ever setting eyes on one. If the word “shark” conjures images of the torpedo-shaped great ...

A rare species of shark stranded in Cornwall was a 3.96m (13ft) long juvenile that could have been more than 100 years old, a post-mortem examination has revealed. The Greenland shark is believed ...

Laurent Ballesta and his team built a semicircular rig of 32 synchronized cameras to capture this “bullet time” video sequence of sharks descending on a grouper at Fakarava Atoll. This visual ...

A huge 14ft (4.2m) smalltooth sand tiger shark has washed up in County Wexford in the Republic of Ireland. Scientists believe this is the first official record of this rare species in Irish waters.

“We really try to impress on folks that these [shark bites] are mistakes, and they’re rare,” said Greg Skomal, a senior fisheries scientist with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries.

Shark experts say, however, that shark attacks still remain a rare occurrence, and even rarer at the site. Kim Holland, a shark researcher from the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, said in his ...

researchers know for sure have killed at least one person, unprovoked. Shark attacks get a lot of attention for how rare they are. This is not to say the risk should be ignored. Just recently ...